END OF LIFE COMFORT

Hey mom and others,

Yes, our Sri Lankan investigator is still scheduled to get baptized on the 8th of March. He is amazing. Shines light. We have the interview on Saturday and then he will get baptized on Sunday. He is awesome!

Yeah, they [the family from the last letter] have some reservations, but they certainly are progressing very well (even if they don't say it :) ) They are the greatest family, and we are so excited to work with them and to help them into the Gospel...even if it is a little bit of a slower road!

This past week, we were only able to meet with the English teacher, and the Sri Lankan (His name is Shashika). 

The English teacher took us out to eat with his family :) So we were able to meet his wife and his son, that he has talked a lot about. His wife was really nice and the son LOVED us. By the end of the dinner he said that he wanted us to come to their home :) He is 11 and is so cute. We are hoping to help them into the Gospel by degrees!

Shashika went well. We taught with our ward mission leader and had to teach simply because English is his 2nd language, but it went well and he has the desire to make a promise with God through baptism.

Glad that things in Minnesota are doing well . I got the Birthday card from the ward relief society (or part)...Thanks! I really enjoyed it!

Investigators like the one close to death are in a tricky situation. He is really depressed all of the time, and his depression makes him try not to think about death, (which is the source of the depression) which, if not confronted or dealt with will just make him stall out his life in a depressed state. We are trying to help him realize the hope of the Gospel, but facing death makes him even more depressed, and so he doesn't respond as well as we hoped. We will try to help him read the scriptures and feel the spirit.

Thanks for the thought! 

This past week, I read again the verse in Alma 28:14: The great reason for sorrow is death and destruction and the great reason for joy is the light of Christ unto life. I know that that verse contains a precious truth. All of our sorrow and pain (of the heart) are in someway related to the death, or destruction, of some thing or relationship...etc., and on the flip side, all true joy has some connection to the light of Christ unto life. Joy that continues throughout life and does not receive much effect from the ebbs and flows of life.